His first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor.

His second novel, Go, Mutants!, was named one of the best novels of 2010 by the Washington Post.

Deliriously Happy, a 2011 collection of humor pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, didn’t win any awards but some people liked it.

Larry Doyle was a writer and producer of The Simpsons for four years; he wrote the films Duplex, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and I Love You, Beth Cooper. He also wrote a bunch of Beavis and Buttheads, a couple Rugrats and Daria.

He was an editor at the National Lampoon, SPY, and New York, and wrote for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Time and other magazines, which were things made out of paper.

Further mostly accurate information can be found at larrydoyle.com.